APacific Daily News Agana Heights, Guam Wednesday, April 12, 1972 - Page 23
Fischer Sees More To Meet Than Spassky
New York (AP) — I don't care two pennies about Boris Spassky as a man, one way or another, but by defeating him I can beat the Russians, who have tried to run me down for years.
Bob Fischer, the self-confident 29-year-old American who challenges Russian Spassky for the world championship this summer, said in a nation-wide television interview Sunday that he aimed to crush Spassky.
Fischer, interviewed by the Columbia Broadcasting System on his 29th birthday, went through a filmed training routine like that of a professional boxer--in gymnasium and bowling alley. He freely discussed his reputed arrogance and his tigerish attitudes toward opponents, even juvenile prodigies. He ruled out only discussing his family, and a father who left when Bobby was two years old, and his religion, born atheistic turning fundamentalist Christian) and girls.
Bachelor Fischer was filmed living alone in a hotel room with chess boards and television set his most constant companions—next to a red book on Spassky that was said to contain every move made by Spassky in every recorded match the Russian ever played.
